diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 00f9b619..845732c1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@ Generated by [`auto-changelog`](https://github.com/CookPete/auto-changelog).
 - closes #35 [`#35`](https://github.com/TeselaGen/tg-oss/issues/35)
 - updating yarn lock [`ff41df0`](https://github.com/TeselaGen/tg-oss/commit/ff41df0b49b8051fcba084f7eaa44cf23284926d)
 - updating deps, moving to lodash-es, moving all packages to type: module [`bc7312c`](https://github.com/TeselaGen/tg-oss/commit/bc7312ccbe27c2d9a11cf2563ba978199428b50a)
-- updating table styling to remove table last row bottom margin, removing unused S3Download, removing axios dep, updating deps [`8a6fb1f`](https://github.com/TeselaGen/tg-oss/commit/8a6fb1f047550f617c3e56b8c3ebf145967076ef)
+- unifying the ui and ove demos [`f23237d`](https://github.com/TeselaGen/tg-oss/commit/f23237d4185830d94f362cbd1dae527ab59ad623)
diff --git a/packages/ove/package.json b/packages/ove/package.json
index 40a073b0..d85d7393 100644
--- a/packages/ove/package.json
+++ b/packages/ove/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@teselagen/ove",
-  "version": "0.5.16",
+  "version": "0.5.17",
   "main": "./src/index.js",
   "type": "module",
   "exports": {
diff --git a/packages/ove/src/helperComponents/AddOrEditAnnotationDialog/index.js b/packages/ove/src/helperComponents/AddOrEditAnnotationDialog/index.js
index 1cb38bab..96ae5a66 100644
--- a/packages/ove/src/helperComponents/AddOrEditAnnotationDialog/index.js
+++ b/packages/ove/src/helperComponents/AddOrEditAnnotationDialog/index.js
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ class AddOrEditAnnotationDialog extends React.Component {
               updatedData = data;
             }
           }
+          const _bases = updatedData.bases || bases;
           if (!data.useLinkedOligo) {
             delete updatedData.bases;
           }
@@ -291,6 +292,7 @@ class AddOrEditAnnotationDialog extends React.Component {
 
           if (beforeAnnotationCreate) {
             const shouldContinue = await beforeAnnotationCreate({
+              bases: _bases,
               annotationTypePlural,
               annotation: newAnnotation,
               props: this.props,